University of Richmond Athletics
2014 Men's Lacrosse In Review
05/23/2014 | Men's Lacrosse
2014 Men's Lacrosse Year in Review
Head Coach: Dan Chemotti
Record: 6-11, 2-3 Atlantic Sun Conference (4th)
Conference Tournament: 4th Seed, 2-0 (Tournament Champions)
- Richmond did what no lacrosse program has done in the 53-year history of the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament... earned a berth (of the now 18) as a first-year program
- The first game in program history was a barnburner... a 13-12 home loss to No. 7 Virginia in front of more than 4,200 people on Feb. 8, 2014
- Richmond played 12 of its 17 games to within four goals, win or lose, of the opponent
- The Spiders started out 0-5 (losing by an average of just 4.8 goals per game), but finished the season winning five of their last nine and six of the last 12... Richmond held a halftime lead nine times
- The only time the Spiders won back-to-back games was the one time they had to, in the Atlantic Sun Tournament... The Spiders knocked off top seed and host Mercer on May 1 and then beat High Point in the Championship on May 3 to earn the spot in the NCAA Tournament... The Bears and Panthers were the co-champs of the league and the results prevented the Spiders from losing to anyone on the schedule twice in the first year
- Richmond was selected to play in one of two play-in games to the tournament, heading out to play at No. 17 Air Force on May 7 in the program's first post-season game
- The Spiders were led in scoring by ASun Freshman of the Year Mitch Goldberg, who paced the team with 32 goals and 43 points... Goldberg also earned Tournament MVP by the ASun, as well as First-Team All-Conference and All-Freshman Team
- Goldberg was one of three freshman tied for fifth at 2.0 goals per game among all first-year NCAA team members... He was fifth in the ASun in goals per game as the league's top freshman scorer... He was seventh in points per game
- LSM Jackson Cabot joined Goldberg on the First-Team, with Brad Burnam, Ryan Dennis and Brendan Hynes landing on the Second-Team
- Burnam finished fourth in the league with 1.35 assists per game, leading the Spiders with 23 for the season
- Hynes finished second in the league and seventh nationally with 2.06 caused turnovers per game (a team-leading 35 for the season) and fourth in the league, but tops among defensemen) with 4.59 ground balls per game
- The Spiders placed a league-high five players on the All-Freshman team... Goldberg was joined by Hynes, Jean-Luc Chetner, J.P. Forester and Dan Ginestro on that squad
- Freshman Benny Pugh earned the job as the starting goalie in the team's sixth game of the season (the program's first win against Vermont in a home game played in Durham, N.C. at the King of the Spring Classic)... He finished with a 6-9 mark, with a goals-against average just below 10 (9.60)... He was second in the league in GAA and third in save percentage (.528)
- The answer to many trivia questions for this inaugural season will likely be Dan Ginestro... He had the team's first goal (on 2/8), first man-up goal (2/8), first man-down goal (3/21) and the squad's first postseason assist, to co-captain Chris Gifford, who scored the team's first post-season goal
- The team had the second-highest percentage of freshmen players on its roster (61.1%, second only to fellow first-year program Boston Univ., which had 75.6% freshmen) and the second-highest percentage of goals scored by freshmen (108 of 153, or 70.6%, second only to Boston's 88.1%, for 90 of 101)
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